Article
Mannolipid donor specificity of glycosylphosphatidylinositol mannosyltransferase-I (GPIMT-I) determined with an assay system utilizing mutant CHO-K1 cells.
Glycobiology - 1 Dec 1994
DeLuca A W, Rush J S, Lehrman M A, Waechter C J
Abstract excerpt
The microsomal enzyme glycosylphosphatidylinositol mannosyltransferase I (GPIMT-I) catalyses the transfer of a mannosyl residue from beta-mannosylphosphoryldolichol (beta-Man-P-Dol) to glucosamine-alpha(1,6)(acyl)phosphatidylinositol (GlcN-aPI) to form Man alpha(1,4)GlcN-aPI (ManGlcN-aPI), an intermediate in glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) synthesis. While the transfer of [3H]mannosyl units to endogenous...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Assay
- CHO Cells
- Carbohydrate Sequence
- Cricetinae
- Glycolipids
- Mannose
- Mannosyltransferases
- Microsomes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
